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And as I said to Manny - I think that resets (or should) each play. IOW, the fire drill continues until play relaxes and the pitcher gets on the rubber. Then with the next play the drill can restart. I've been wrong before.
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Don't have my book with me, but isn't there a FED rule about a runner being out if he abandons his effort to advance?
Of course, the kicker to all this is that Segura was subsequently thrown out trying to (re)steal second. |
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In MLB, it's (generally) not going to be invoked until R2 gets into foul territory. I think this runner did make it to foul territory (but I haven't seen the play recently.) For an R1 or R3, he'll have to be "well into" foul territory. |
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By your understanding, B1 could hit a clean double, and then B2 and B3 strike out. R2 erroneously thinks there are three outs, so he starts jogging to his dugout on the first base side. He is informed more than halfway to first by his base coach that there are only two outs. I can't imagine that the rules would allow him to hightail it to first base to avoid the out. 7.01 says that once a runner achieves legal entitlement to a base, only two things can happen to him. He can either be put out or be forced to vacate the base by another runner who gains legal entitlement to that base. There is no option for him to return to a previous base. 7.02 says a runner can go to a previous base only if "forced to return". He is only forced to return if he is subject to an appeal for missing a base or failing to tag up properly, or if another runner is legally entitled to the base he tried to achieve. Arbitrarily returning to a previous base because of confusion or some other strange reason is not something I would categorize as being "forced to return."
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7.01 is subject to debate of course. Given there has been no "oops" yet from MLB I'd vote that it was called properly. 7.02 is definitely about being part of a play or its result (e.g. return to retouch while live, or on an award during a dead ball).
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